I will gladly pay you a red chip tomorrow for a green today.

Japan. Too many red chips. That tax thing was quite the green chip. They should have done that tax in  three steps, balanced the reds.

Going in to this a bit more.

After spreading out the green tax chip, they got the oldsters ton  dump a couple of reds, then bingo; they nearly got a red/green ratio, and its inverse. They got a nice cotangent ring going, great.  That  make them yet another sensible aggregate of biological intelligence. They don 't need no Aby Nomics.